Sedgefield has attracted particular attention as the Member of Parliament for the wider Sedgefield constituency was the former Prime Minister Tony Blair ; he was the area's MP from 1983 to 2007, leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007, and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007.

Peterlee is served by Arriva North East and Go North East who provide services in the local area and to the following towns and cities: Newcastle, Gateshead, South Shields, Sunderland, Houghton-le-Spring, Durham, Hartlepool, Sedgefield, Newton Aycliffe, Billingham, Stockton, Thornaby, Middlesbrough, Darlington ; there is also a bus to the MetroCentre.

It was named after Sedgefield ; but its largest town was Newton Aycliffe.

From 1983 to 1997 it was part of the Sedgefield constituency ; during this time the MP was Tony Blair, who was Leader of the Opposition for the last three years of his tenure as the town's MP.

He stood in the 2006 Blaenau Gwent by-election, coming last with 318 votes ; and in the 2007 Sedgefield by-election where he came tenth out of 11 candidates with 129 votes.

By bus, the town has bus services provided by Arriva to Bishop Auckland, Durham, Darlington, Ferryhill, Peterlee, Sedgefield, and Sunderland.

The Bishop Middleham Community Wildlife Garden ( 0. 87 hectares ) has been declared a designated Local Nature Reserve by Sedgefield council.

* Bishop Middleham and Cornforth, Broom, Chilton, Ferryhill, Fishburn and Old Trimdon, Greenfield Middridge, Neville and Simpasture, New Trimdon and Trimdon Grange, Sedgefield, Shafto St Marys, West and Woodham from the former Borough of Sedgefield.

Bishop Middleham Quarry is a disused quarry, about 4 km north-west of Sedgefield, County Durham, England.

Sedgefield is a small town and civil parish in County Durham, England.

It is part of the civil parish of Cassop-cum-Quarrington. It is ideally located for speedy access to both Durham city, the A1M, and Teesside via Sedgefield.

The beck is one of the parish boundaries, as the township of Sedgefield begins on the other side of the river.

In 1908 the parish boundaries of Grindon grew to include the township of Embleton from the neighbouring parish of Sedgefield.

With his father's declination of the position as minister of the court ; during his young boyhood ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá witnessed his parents ' various charitable endeavours, which included converting part of the home to a hospital ward for women and children.

A bishop is the president of the Aaronic priesthood in his ward ( and is thus a form of Mormon Kohen ; in fact, a literal descendant of Aaron has " legal right " to act as a Bishop after being found worthy and ordained by the First Presidency ).

The family could mortgage the land to ward off poverty ; and the law of Leviticus 25: 25ff required a kinsman to purchase it back into the family.

Furthermore, in the Enchiridion Augustine attempts to refute skepticism by stating, " y not positively affirming that they are alive, the skeptics ward off the appearance of error in themselves, yet they do make errors simply by showing themselves alive ; one cannot err who is not alive.

* the poet's attempt to ward off the charge of impiety that was later to overtake his friend Socrates ;

His efforts were inspired after a visit to Taunton's Musgrove Park Hospital whilst receiving treatment for a broken toe ; when he took a wrong turn into a children's ward, he was devastated to learn that some of the children had only weeks to live, and why.

Wearing of amulets and devotional medals to provide protection or ward off evil is common in some cultures ; these may take the form of symbols ( such as the ankh ), stones, plants, animals, body parts ( such as the Khamsa ), or glyphs ( such as stylised versions of the Throne Verse in Islamic art ).

This method resembles the Ancient Greek practice of placing an obolus in the corpse's mouth to pay the toll to cross the River Styx in the underworld ; it has been argued that instead, the coin was intended to ward off any evil spirits from entering the body, and this may have influenced later vampire folklore.

The electoral ward of Llandaff is bounded by Radyr & Morganstown to the north west ; Llandaff North to the north ; Riverside to the west ; Canton to the south ; and Fairwater to the west.

Marie de ' Medici wasted the wealth amassed by Henry IV ; she never purged herself of the charge of having known of the king's assassination ; her intimate was d ' Épernon, who did not ward off Ravaillac's blow, and who was proved to have known the murderer personally for a long time.

While she is speaking her ward, Opheltes is killed by a snake ; in Book 6, the Argives perform games for the dead child, instituting the Nemean Games.

During World War I the gallery was used as a hospital ward ; during the Second War it was a means of escaping from the Nazi occupied zone on one side of the River Cher to the " free " zone on the opposite bank.

Each ward is represented by three councillors ; at present all of the councillors in Chingford represent the Conservative Party.

Councillors unseated included the veteran Steve Mama ( Labour ), Kingston's longest serving Councillor ; the Conservative election campaign co-ordinator Nick Kilby from his previously safe Surbiton Hill ward ; and Paul Johnston, the former local Conservative Association chairman and trustee.

One of the political wards in Camden is called St Pancras and Somers Town ; however, ward boundaries are chosen to divide a borough into roughly equal slices with little regard to historical boundaries or day-to-day usage.

Sydenham () is an area and electoral ward in the London Borough of Lewisham ; although some streets towards Crystal Palace Park, Forest Hill and Penge are outside the ward and in the London Borough of Bromley, and some streets off Sydenham Hill are in the London Borough of Southwark.

The parish was divided into three wards: Church-street, Stratford-Langthorne, and Plaistow ; with the village of West Ham corresponding to the Church-street ward.

With the Winchmore Hill conservation area as a focal point, Winchmore Hill is a ward of Enfield borough, bounded on the east by Green Lanes ( the A105 road ), Barrowell Green, Firs Lane and Fords Grove, and on the west by Grovelands Park ; in the south it extends to part of Aldermans Hill, and in the north to Vicars Moor Lane and Houndsden Road.

There are 21 wards represented on Bexley Council ; each ward elects three councillors, 63 in all.

In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Bishop is the leader of a local congregation, called a ward.

The first Mormon ward was the Sugar City Ward, with Bishop Mark Austin.

An LDS ward was organized there in 1877 with Francis Hammond as Bishop, and he was succeeded in 1885 by David McKay.

This tunic was already the subject of a miracle, it was used by an earlier Bishop of Chartres, Gauscelinus, in 911 to ward off the invading Normans.

* Bishop Auckland Town Bishop Auckland Town ward ; Cockton Hill ward

Bishop Vesey's Grammar School for boys and Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls are located within the ward.

Bishop is the highest priesthood office of the Aaronic priesthood in the Latter Day Saint movement, and is leader of the Aaronic priesthood in a given ward or congregation.

The Bishop is often called " the father of the ward " as he is the priesthood leader who is most intimately involved with individual church members.

All adult men in the ward, whether they are faithful or not, are assigned to either the Elders Quorum or the High Priests Group as directed by the Bishop.

An Elders Quorum is a local quorum organized in each ward, but presided over by a president with priesthood keys, who acts under the direction and authority of the local stake presidency, and under the direction of the presiding High Priest in the ward who is typically a Bishop.

Priests Quorums are organized at the ward level and presided over by the ward Bishop, with the Bishop being the president of the quorum ( s ) and holding the keys of the Aaronic Priesthood in the ward.

Teachers Quorums are organized at the ward level and act under the direction of the Aaronic Priesthood president — the ward Bishop — who calls a Teachers Quorum President who holds keys to direct the work of the quorum.

Deacons Quorums are organized at the ward level and act under the direction of the ward Bishop — who is the Aaronic Priesthood president — who calls a Deacons Quorum President who holds keys to direct the work of the quorum.